18 August 2012 Last updated at 14:56

Two quarry engines at Penrhyn Castle's steam weekend

Two steam engines, the Hugh Napier (pictured) and the Lilla, have gone on show at Penrhyn Castle, near Bangor, Gwynedd, as part of a Let Off Steam event this weekend.

It is a bit of a promotion for the two engines which spent their working lives hauling slate in the quarries owned by the castle's owner Lord Penrhyn. Lilla was built in 1891 and first worked in Cilgwyn quarry in the Nantlle Valley before moving to Penrhyn quarry in Bethesda in 1928.

Richard Williams inside the castle's railway museum

Property manager Richard Williams checks the exhibits ahead of the weekend which will also include a 1950s model railway and narrow gauge model railway with family actives.

The Hugh Napier was built in 1904 and pulled wagons of slate and rubble at Penrhyn Quarry until 1954. It was rescued by the National Trust in 1966 and the restoration work was completed in 2011 by Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway. New it cost £640 (around £37,000 in today's money).

The museum is dedicated to industrial railway locomotives, many which worked in quarries owned by Lord Penrhyn

The Let Off Steam event is being held at Penrhyn Castle on Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19 August from 11:00 BST each day.

Chris Dickinson, railway museum assistant at Penrhyn Castle said the weekend was the culmination of a lot of hard work both at the Penrhyn railway museum and by the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways which carried out restoration work.

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Two quarry engines at Penrhyn Castle's steam weekend

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